Posts by Kevin Zahner

Your music is important to you but perhaps the budget is failing to cooperate or the music isn’t ready yet. Usually, songwriters record a demo to market their songs with hopes of a major recording...

It’s not enough to play congas with great technique. To sound great, you need the right drum heads. Most drums come with real skins yet a lot of pros use synthetic, and we all want that awesome...

New songs can be both exciting and frustrating when it comes to writing drum beats. It depends on the expectations in the room as well as your own ideas about what makes the right drum beat for the...

My first drum set was a toy with paper heads. The heads were broken in a couple of weeks, so my dad bought me two drums at a Sears overstock store. Those drums took me a little further until my older...

In eleventh grade, I started studying with a new drum teacher. He was a world class drum set player and percussionist, and it was during that time that I was introduced to Afro-Cuban drumming. From...

One of the first things I noticed when I started classes at UNT was how the drum set students schlepped their gear. The stretch from the practice buildings to the lab band halls wasn’t far, but the...